Apparatus for drawing liquids



(No Mod''l.) G, D. BURTON.

APPARATUS FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS. N0.275,134. l Patented Apr. 3 1883.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 275,134, dated April 3, 1883.

application filed November 98, 1882. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. BURTON, of New Ipswich, county of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, have inventedan Improvement in Apparatus for Drawing Liquids, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to an apparatus for drawing liquids, and is shown as employed in connection with a barrel or keg of malt liquor.

The object of the invention is to cause. the liquid to be always drawn from the upper surface of the body of the liquid in the barrel or other reservoir or receptacle, the drawn liquid i issuing from the lower portion of the reservoir, so that by continued drawing the entire body of liquid can be removed.

1n practicing my invention I employ a flexible discharge-pipe arranged to be connected at one end with the usual tap or faucet, the said pipe passing through the body of the liquid and having at its other enda float, by,

which the said end is sustained at the surface of the liquid in such a manner that the liquid can flow into it, so as to be drawn from the other end. The .end of the pipe that is thus floated upon the surface of the liquid is preferably provided with a perforated inlet attachment, serving as a strainer to prevent solid matter from passing into the pipe. By this apparatus the liquid can be drawn clear from a barrel after it. has stood but a very short time, much less than would be required to settleit sufficiently to enable the liquid to be drawn from near the bottom in the usual manner.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of abarrel provided with an apparatus for discharging its contents in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2, a verticalsectiou of the inlet piece and its float on a larger scale; Fig. 3, a sectional detail, showing the outlet'passage plugged up for transporting the barrel and Fig. 4, a side elevation of an implement which may be employed to remove the plug prior toinserting the tap or spigot.

The liquid to be drawn is contained in any suitable reservoir or receptacle-shown in this instance as a barrel, A-suohas commonly employed for malt or other fermented liquors. The reservoir orbarrel A has in its lower portion when in the position to have the liquid" drawn an opening, 2,to contain the usual tap or spigot, a, by which the flow of the liquid is.

One end of the pipe 1) passes through the open ing 2, and, as herein shown, is secured to the,

head of the barrel by a metallic ring or thim- 1 ble, 0. ed with an inlet-piece, 67, provided with a number of perforations, 3, to permit the liquid to The other end of the pipe I) is provid enter the tube, and having connected therewith a float, 6, consisting of a piece 'of cork or other light material, or of a hollow metallic chamber, it being of sufficient buoyancy to sustain the weight of the pipe I) and'keep the inlet-pieced at the surface of the liquid, as shown in Fig. 1.

When the barrel is filled, and before it is transported to the place where the liquid is to be used, the spigot a will usually be removed, and the outlet 2 will then be closed by a plug, f, (see Fig.3,) which is preferably bored through transversely, as shown at 4, to receive the ends 5 of a pair of tongs, h, (such as shown in Fig. 4,) by which it may be easily withdrawn when the spigot is to be inserted. It will be seen liquid in the reservoir flows into the openings I 3ofthe floating inlet-piece, and then through the pipe I) to the outlet or spigot a, and the liquid is thus always removed from the upper surface, and in flowing does not disturb orcarry with it the sediment at the bottom of the-liquid. 'By this method of drawing the liquid it will settle sufficiently to be ready for drawing in a very short time, for the sedimentary matter very soon settles below the upper surface.

The inlet device d with its )erforations opcrates as a strainer to prevent any floating matter from entering the pipe and flowing out with the liquid.

It is obvious that the construction of the various parts of the herein-described apparatusm'ight he modified without departing'from .the intention,- The discharge; pipe, for instance, need not be flexible throng-hontvits entire length, as a pipewith oneor more joints would operate similarly, and would 'be the equivalent of'the flexible pipe. l'claim 1. The combination, with a receptacle or'reservoir for liquid provided with an ontlet-opetn thing, of aflexible discharge-pipe connectedat one, end with the said opening by a-metallic thimble, c, and a float connected with-the other end of the, said dischargc-pipe,*whereby the inlet to said pipe is maintained at the surface 15v of the liquid and conveys the upper portion gfthereof to the outlet, snbstnptially as and for f tii'epurpose set forth.

-to this specification 2. The barrel provided with aiioutlet-upen.-.. ing 'in' its head; the flexible dischorgeqiipe having one end passed through the said openin g, and provided at its other end with a, float, combined-with the metallic ring or thimble for connecting thesaid pipe with the barrelhend around its outlet-opening,substantiallyas described. a e

e '25 In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the'presence of'twosnb scribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

J 0s. P LIVERMORE, B. J. NoYEs.

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